Sportbucketry

Jul 16

Jul 9
Wow. Just wow.

Jul 1

May 29
“That’s been our history,” Norma Trimble, who is Native American, said during the question-and-answer session this month. “They take all you’ve got. They take your land. Now they want your stories.” As Portland Changes, Blacks and Whites Talk It Over

May 27

Reasons I'm Entertaining Yet Another Expensive Photography Purchase

Or, shortcomings of the Nikon D40:

  • No auto-bracketing
  • Limited to 3 frames in burst mode
  • Only 3 autofocus anchors

It took a 3000+ frame vacation to Hawaii to even notice some of these things, but now that I’m aware of them, they’re bugging me.


May 12
Just spotted Sayid at a crosswalk in Honolulu. He smokes Marlboro reds.

Apr 30
“Wil Shipley, a Seattle software developer, uses his iPhone at the Whole Foods fish counter to check websites for updates on which seafood is the most environmentally correct to purchase. He quizzes the staff on where and how a fish was caught. Because he carries the Internet with him, “I can be super-picky,” he said.” Wil Shipley is the whitest, nerdiest person alive (okay, that’s not actually the title of the article, but it probably should be)


Apr 22
“These accusations are pure, slanderous rubbish,” said Lord Nathan Dunkirk III, the owner of a prodigious manor house that, along with its steeplechase course and topiary garden, sits on what was once the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. “If anything, the layabouts and wastrels have been afforded a veritable glut of new and felicitous opportunities as bootblacks and scullery maids.” Nation’s Gentrified Neighborhoods Threatened by Aristocratization, The Onion

Apr 21
The Beastie Boys’ Licensed to Ill was the first tape I ever owned. An older neighbor kid let me record his copy. I remember putting two tape decks on the floor of my bedroom, pressing “play” on one and “record” on the other, then closing the door and leaving them alone until Side A was done. I was 5. Mom wouldn’t let me bring it to preschool.

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